Not on account that William Goode's Women in Divorce within the 1950's have we had this sort of entire learn of adjustment to divorce. This longitudinal paintings perspectives divorce as a transition strategy that can have confident or destructive results through the years. as well as statistical research, the ebook comprises very attention-grabbing case stories to illustrate the dynamic occasions taking place as members refashion their lives after the breakup in their marriages. Researchers on divorce and the public will locate this booklet very priceless for years to come."
—Colleen L. Johnson, Ph.D.Professor
Medical Anthropology, college of California, San Francisco

We are witnessing a gentle elevate within the total variety of older adults who're divorced, but the vast majority of divorce learn has involved itself with folks within the more youthful grownup years. This specified, groundbreaking publication addresses the severe desire for info at the influence of divorce on contributors in all age teams, and will pay distinct recognition to age as an element within the results of divorce on either males and women.

Written by way of an interdisciplinary crew of social and behavioral scientists, Divorce: concern, problem or Relief? presents the helpful effects received from their existence span research of divorced adults. Divorce is the manufactured from 1000's of interviews containing a number of very particular questions performed with divorced adults among the a long time of 20 and seventy nine, either simply after their divorce and back a number of years later.